| Erato Records | |
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| Parent company | Warner Music Group |
| Founded | 1953 |
| Founder | Philippe Loury |
| Genre | Classical music (Early and Baroque music) |
| Country of origin | France |
| Location | Paris |
| Official website | www |
Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 as Erato Disques S.A. by Philippe Loury to promote French classical music. Loury was head of éditions musicales Costallat. His first releases in France were licensed from the Haydn Society of Boston, and he made Erato's first recording in January 1953: Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum with Les Jeunesses Muslcales.
Michel Garcin became the label's artistic director and producer and built up the catalogue with contemporary French composers such as Henri Dutilleux[1] and French artists: Jean-François Paillard (234 records), Marie-Claire Alain (234 records), Maurice André (198 records), Jean-Pierre Rampal (127 records), and Lily Laskine.[2]
- ^ Henri Dutilleux -Henri Dutilleux: Music--mystery and Memory : Conversations 2003 . "As with other works of mine, I owe that disc to the unfailing support that Michel Garcin and the firm of Erato ..."
- ^ BBC music magazine: Volume 4 British Broadcasting Corporation - 1996 "In 1953, he started Disques Erato and began licensing early releases from the Haydn Society of Boston. Then Loury made Erato's first recording, Charpentler's Te Deum's Les Jeunesses Muslcales.